If you’re planning a trek, expedition, safari, or urban journey in Nepal, you’ll need different equipment.
Here we offer some general guidelines on the basic equipment you’ll need, based on your activity:
Duration: 1-2 months
Accommodation: hotel, lodge, and tents.
Clothing: thermal shirts, thermal pants, thermal jacket, jacket, pants, socks, water and wind-resistant jacket and pants. Shoes: trekking boots, high mountain boots, camp shoes, sandals.
Equipment: Down suit, trekking poles, thin gloves, thick gloves, sunglasses, snow goggles, hat, buff, sleeping bag, mattress, crampons, harness, carabiners, ascender, descender, dynamic ropes, static ropes, ice axe, helmet, supplementary oxygen system, tents (e.g., The North Face V25 model), liquid soap, sunscreen, lip balm, first aid kit, prescription medications, sun hat, bag, thermos, urine bottles, solar panels, toothpaste, toothbrush.
Duration: 10 days to 1 month
Accommodation: hotel, lodge, tents.
Clothing: thermal shirts, thermal pants, thermal jacket, jacket, pants, socks, water and wind-resistant jacket and pants. Shoes: boots, camp shoes, sandals.
Equipment: trekking poles, thin gloves, thick gloves, sunglasses, snow lenses, hat, buff, sleeping bag, mattress, tent (e.g., The North Face V25 model), liquid soap, sunscreen, lip balm, first aid kit, sun hat, bag, thermos, toothpaste, toothbrush, water purification tablets, medications, and prescriptions.
Duration: 10-15 days
Accommodation: hotel
Clothing: As they wear in their local cities or towns.
Duration: 10-15 days
Accommodation: hotel and tents.
Clothing: Sports attire like hikers.
Duration: 7-15 days
Accommodation: Hotel and tents.
Clothing: Sports attire like hikers.
Duration: 10 days – 2 months
Accommodation: Lodge, hotel, NGO
Clothing: Sports attire like hikers.
Duration: 10-15 days
Clothing: As they do in their local cities or towns.
Duration: 7-15 days
Clothing: Sporty attire like hikers and also as they do in their local cities or towns.
